Can you run a live CD Puppy (or usb Puppy), boot with pfix=ram and once Puppy is running, see what GParted reports if you run it. It should show you what partitions are on your hard-drive.

How did you "erase" sda1, by the way? Did you want to only clear all the data from it (wipe it or reformat it) - "erase" sounds like you have deleted sda1 as a partition, so there is just unformatted space where it was?

To rephrase what David S. said: Linux only "sees" filesystems. It can't see empty (unformatted) space. When you deleted the partition you took out the filesystem structure. That's why Puppy doesn't see anything there. Gparted can reformat the empty space.

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